The closing of the Hemingway Bar comes, unfortunately, at a time when Paris is starting to embrace the cocktail more fully.

WSJ: Au Revoir, Hemingway Bar

The Hemingway Bar, by contrast, is a much more intimate scene.

WSJ: Au Revoir, Hemingway Bar

Barcelona's first cocktail bar, it was opened in 1933 by Miguel Boadas, who'd learned his trade mixing up Hemingway's daiquiris at El Floridita in Havana.

BBC: Barcelona: More than meets the eye